Axis

In my world,my heart doesn’t beatit is spun on an axis by elephantswalking across it with their newbornmigratingtrotting from apex to bottom in search of yougrinding gears togetherpushing streams of life through pipeworkunder my skin powering these armsmy hands

I want a lifetime to explore your platitudescommanding the ebb and flow of your presencefrom head to bare feetlevitating your hips at command two opposite mountainous regions divided by a canyon floating towards me rising to the ceiling

Giants on my heart slow their metronomic thumpingas the day gives into night,I lay you to sleep and breathe your formdiurnal lengths of skinhair brushed back draped over pillows sown into the fabric of earth itself golden deserts expanses of black earth where soil is upturned, trees uprooted when you rustle

And I, dreaming of impossibilities Love that can be touched like a riverpouring from my heart where elephants tread waterlands where there is no sky, but ocean mirrored abovewhere we are but pendulums crashing into one anotherwhere I fold space to bring us together spite of distance oceans mountains

And though this may seem impossible alchemy, these are the things that I controlinside the cosmos of our sleep